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"Backbone” services for the health reforms’ pilot localities are being formed and, in Horowhenua, will be provided by the local iwi and PHO

Pandemic-related border restrictions are behind delays to financial reporting by agencies and businesses, including in primary care

It’s more than a decade ago now, but my legs seem to have retained a vivid memory of what they did immediately after they were swept off a submerged boulder in a swift Rakaia River

Medtech is introducing a software addition that can be purchased for its Evolution practice management system and used to simplify patients’ payments

Health minister Andrew Little has delivered a double dose of criticism of primary healthcare and defended his call for new business models 

The rural health sector is hitting back at health minister Andrew Little after he repeated his view that “old-fashioned business models” are doing the sector a disservice 

The interim health reform agencies have appointed a taskforce to deal with hospital waiting lists blown out by the pandemic 

Corporate acquisitions are reshaping the radiology sector

The approach of retirement and the chance to join a larger organisation motivated an Auckland GP to sell his small practice to a growing corporate company

The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill is due back in the House this week, for its second-reading debate, following proposed amendments by a select committee